Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10454317 Biological Psychology 2012 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
► The mere observation of a child's distress induced autonomic arousal in the mother. ► Facial thermal modulations of mothers correlated with those of their children. ► Mother and child show a situation-specific parallelism in autonomic variations. ► Maternal empathy embodies a direct sharing of visceral-autonomic processes.
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